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x < y -- yields true or false depending on whether x < y.
Calls upon ? to perform the comparison, if necessary.
This operator may be used as a prefix unary operator in an expression like < y. The user may install a method for handling such expressions with code such as
< Y := (y) -> ...where Y is the class of y.
Methods for < :